Settle the GSEAC/UAW Strike (fwd)

[ASUW Womens Action Coalition]

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ASUW Women's Action Commission
University of Washington
Husky Union Building Rm.201
SAO 17 Box 352238
Seattle, WA 98195

Phone: 206.543.1817	Fax: 206.685.4310
http://depts.washington.edu/~asuwomn

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:52:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Campus Radical Women <crw at u.washington.edu>
To: Undisclosed recipients:  ;
Subject: Settle the GSEAC/UAW Strike (fwd)

Dear All,

This is for your information.  Campus Radical Women sent the following
message to President McCormick calling on him to meet the demands of the
TA's and to end the stike.  We sent him this letter in solidarity with the
striking graduate students.

Also, as of right now, the picket lines will continue to next week.  So,
go out and join GSEAC on the picket lines!  The sites for the picket lines
are at the 3 main entrances into the UW (40th St. & 15th Ave NE, 45th
St. & 17th Ave, and 25th Ave NE).  :)

GSEAC is also asking people to show support by calling or emailing him and
pressuring him to do the right thing, end the strike, and meet GSEAC's
demands.  Here's the information:  (206)543-5010 and rlm at u.washington.edu.

See on the picket line!

In Solidarity,
Constance Daruthayan


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Campus Radical Women <crw at u.washington.edu>
To: rlm at u.washington.edu
Cc: gseac at mindspring.com
Subject: Settle the GSEAC/UAW Strike

Campus Radical Women
UW Mail Stop: SAO 163, HUB 207, Box 352238
E-mail: crw at u.washington.edu  Phone: (206)722-6057

Open Letter to UW President Richard McCormick to Settle the GSEAC/ UAW
Strike


June 7, 2001

Dear President Richard McCormick,

	Campus Radical Women supports the strike of TAs, Readers, Graders
and Tutors. We believe that better working conditions, pay, and health
benefits will improve their jobs, advance the quality of education for
students, and enhance the relationships between faculty and graduate
assistants.

	We oppose your obstruction of workers democratic right to
unionize. The UW administration should lead the way in teaching and
practicing enlightened management/labor relations, not create barriers to
them. UW Labor Relations assertion that anti-union students might sue the
university if management agrees to GSEAC/UAWs demands, is a provocative
and back-handed response--much like the one you issued when you jumped to
implement anti-affirmative action I-200, for fear some students might sue
the UW. We call on you and Labor Relations to stop undermining and
threatening campus employees unionizing efforts.

	You do not need legislation to recognize GSEAC/UAW as the TAs sole
bargaining representative. To hold on to this position is a cover for your
refusal to recognize TAs as employees with fundamental rights on the job.
No matter that Washington State Attorney General Christine Gregoire agrees
with you, other public universities have recognized TA unions without
state legislation. Why not UW?  Members of the Faculty Senate, labor
experts from across the country, and even some of Washington States own
representatives refute your claim that UW can not negotiate a binding
contract with GSEAC/UAW without a legal framework.

	By insisting on management prerogatives over employee rights, by
ignoring the advice of your own faculty, staff and students to settle with
the TAs, you provoked the strike. You, and the UW Regents, who endorse
your actions, are responsible for keeping students from their finals, not
the hard-working TAs, Graders, Readers and Tutors.

	Campus Radical Women calls on you to settle the strike now by
meeting GSEAC/UAWs just and reasonable demands, including:  Exclusive
representation and binding arbitration, decent pay, healthy benefits and
humane working conditions.

	In addition, we demand no retaliation against students, staff and
faculty who have participated in or supported the strike.

					Sincerely,
					Constance Daruthayan, President